Wireless portable activity-monitoring device syncing
AssigneeFitbit, Inc.
InventorsJames Park, Heiko Gernot Albert Panther, Barry Christopher Burton, Eric Nathan Friedman
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Abstract
A notification signal, intended to be received by a wireless communication device, is repetitively broadcast by a portable activity-monitoring device that generates user-activity data corresponding to activity of an individual bearing the portable activity-monitoring device. The notification signal conveys information that identifies the portable activity-monitoring device and indicates whether or not the portable activity-monitoring device seeks establishment of a wireless communication link to enable transmission of the user-activity data to the wireless communication device.
Claims31
A portable activity-monitoring device comprising:
- monitoring circuitry, including at least one accelerometer, configured to generate user-activity data corresponding to activity of an individual bearing the portable activity-monitoring device;
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- communication circuitry, coupled to the monitoring circuitry, configured to intermittently broadcast a notification signal to be received by a wireless communication device, the notification signal conveying information that identifies the portable activity-monitoring device and indicates (i) that, in at least one instance of the notification signal, the portable activity-monitoring device seeks establishment of a wireless communication link to enable transmission of the user-activity data to the wireless communication device, and (ii) that, in at least one other instance of the notification signal, the portable activity-monitoring device is available to communicate with the wireless communication device but does not seek establishment of a wireless communication link to transmit the user-activity data.
A method of operation within a portable activity-monitoring device, the method comprising:
- generating user-activity data corresponding to activity of an individual bearing the portable activity-monitoring device based, at least in part, on one or more signals generated by an accelerometer within the portable activity-monitoring device;
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- intermittently broadcasting a notification signal to be received by a wireless communication device, the notification signal conveying information that identifies the portable activity-monitoring device and indicates (i) that, in at least one instance of the notification signal, the portable activity-monitoring device seeks establishment of a wireless communication link to enable transmission of the user-activity data to the wireless communication device, and (ii) that, in at least one other instance of the notification signal, the portable activity-monitoring device is available to communicate with the wireless communication device but does not seek establishment of a wireless communication link to transmit the user-activity data.
A portable activity-monitoring device comprising:
- means, including at least one accelerometer, for generating user-activity data corresponding to activity of an individual bearing the portable activity-monitoring device;
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- means for intermittently broadcasting a notification signal to be received by a wireless communication device, the notification signal conveying information that identifies the portable activity-monitoring device and indicates (i) that, in at least one instance of the notification signal, the portable activity-monitoring device seeks establishment of a wireless communication link to enable transmission of the user-activity data to the wireless communication device, and (ii) that, in at least one other instance of the notification signal, the portable activity-monitoring device is available to communicate with the wireless communication device but does not seek establishment of a wireless communication link to transmit the user-activity data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.